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PYROTEOHNIG.

No. 471,703. Patented Mar. 29; 1892.

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PYROTECHNIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 471,703, dated March29, 1892.

Application filed December 4, 1891. $erial No. 413,999- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OLEMENTE DEL GRANDE, a subject of the King of Italy,and a resident of Isernia, in the Province of Oampobasso, Italy, buttemporarily residing at Petersburg, in the county of Dinwiddie and Stateof Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pyrotechnics,of which the following is a specification. r

The object of my invention is to provide a novel article of fire-works,which on ignition will give a loud whistle or a colored flame succeededby a series of detonations, which detonations or explosions may vary inloudness, if desired, and may be either with or without the ejection ofstars, colored balls, or rockets; and my invention consists of a tube orcore charged with a whistling or other pyrotechnic compound and securedin any suitable Way to a handle, in combination with a series of bombssuspended from the tube and connected to the compound and to each otherby a suitable fuse.

An article of this description is useful for pyrotechnic purposes inparades and celebrations, as well as for signaling purposes, wherein theloudness or nature of the whistle or flame and the succeedingdetonations may be arranged in accordance with any predetermined code.

In the accompanying drawing, which illustrates my invention, A is ahandle composed of wooden or other suitable material of any convenientlength.

B is a tube or core of pasteboard, paper, or other suitable materialcharged with whistlin g or other pyrotechnic compound b-such, forexample, as the whistling picrate of potash described in Letters Patentto Antonio del Grande, No. 411,714, September 24, 1889.

b is a fuse for igniting the compound.

The tube B is secured to the handle A in any suitable way. In thedrawing it is shown as fastened by means of a wire or string a a.

C O C are bombs connected in a series by the fuse c to the compound inthe tube B and hanging freely from said tube.

D is a wrapper of strong paper or other suitable material surroundingsaid fuse c and serving to suspend the bombs from the tube where a fuseis used, which entirely consumes when ignited.

E is a fancy wrapper, which may surround any or all of the various partsof the pyrotechnic, if desired.

In firing the fire-work it is held by the bandle, and the fuse 5 beingignited the com pound burns with the production of a whistling noise ora colored flame, as the case may be, followed by the explosion of thebombs in succession.

I thus provide an article of fire-works'which permits of the use of loudand large bombs without jar to the hand of the person holding thehandle, such as would result were the bombs rigidly secured to thehandle, against which part of their explosive force would then beexerted. V

In the drawing I haveshown the last bomb 0 as much larger andconsequently louder than the others.

When operating the particular signal shown in the drawing, attentionbeing first called by the colored flamecor whistle from the tube, therewill be five low explosions, which may be, if desired, at fixedintervals, (according to the length of the fuse,) terminating in a loudreport; but I do not limit myself thereto, as the bombs may all be ofequal loudness or varied in number or' loudness, or both, in accordancewith any predetermined or well-known code for signaling purposes, asalready stated. Neither do I limit myself to any particular compound orany particular means of connecting the whistling-tube to the handle, orof suspending the bombs from the tube, as they may all be greatly variedwithout departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

An article of pyrotechnics, consisting of a handle, a tube packed with awhistling or other compound and secured to one end of my hand in thepresence of the subscribing said handle, a fuse for igniting said eom-Witnesses. pound, and a series of bombs cqnnected to each other and tothe compound in the tube CLEMENTE DEL GRANDE 5 by a fuse and freelysuspended by one end \Vitnesses:

from said tube and handle, substantially as P. GIULIANO, described. 7SAML. STEVENS, J r.,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set W. P. MORAE.

